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Dutch gangster Ferry Koch: King of the Rip
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2010-11-05T14:44:56.000Z
2010-11-05T14:44:56.000Z
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<div><p>By Steve Brown<br /> Posted on March 16, 2008<br /> <br /> Steve Brown is a former drug smuggler who has written five books on organized crime in The Netherlands. He also has a weblog which you can visit by clicking <a href="http://www.stevenbrown.web-log.nl/">here</a>.<br /> <br /> When I was making the tv program "Tough Guys" (Zware Jongens) for Dutch tv network Veronica I wanted to interview a few 'rippers'. Of course that would be an exciting item. The first man I wanted to interview was Ferry Koch. Unfortunately for the viewers I could not interview him anymore since he had already been murdered. But because I had been friends with him for many years I can tell you something about this 'King of the Rip'.<br /> <br /> <img style="float:right;" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9236979099,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" />Ferry made the underworld tremble in fear for many years. His name was synonimous with ripping and fucking. He had come up with many ways of ripping off fellow criminals; from using extreme violence to the refined sting. Unfortunately his career ended the way the career of most people who steal from criminals ends. Upon arriving at his house one morning he was hit with nine bullets. The shots were presumably fired by Martin Hoogland (photo on the right, who was later convicted of the murder of Klaas Bruinsma and himself killed a few years ago.) I assume it was Martin because Martin told me, mostly when he was stoned, all the gory bloody details himself when we were drinking in a bar. What can I say, during the late 1980s and early 1990s people weren't so secretive about a murder more or less. The patrol cop was sitting next to us like he didn't care, so to speak.<br /> <br /> Before that fatal day, Ferry already had survived an attempt on his life, catching seven bullets in the process. After being shot Ferry drove himself to the Slotervaart hospital (in Amsterdam). The fact that he was still alive was a miracle. After the much needed surgery Ferry told the police nothing. He took care of this type of 'business' himself.<br /> <br /> He kept thinking Charlie Wong (by now also murdered) was behind the assassination attempt. Ferry and Wong were involved in a long running conflict about a villa in Friesland (Dutch northern province), which Ferry had ripped from Wong, when Wong was in prison.<br /> <br /> Shortly thereafter Ferry himself shot two men in a nightclub in Rotterdam in connection with a 'rip' of five kilos of coke. They had the nerve to ask him what happened to their kilos. One of the men had about five bullets in his leg. Ferry had fired away in the nightclub. And oddly enough non of the 400 people who were there had seen anything. After the shooting a content Ferry drove his mercedes back to Amsterdam.<br /> <br /> Ferry's foremost activities were much like those of his Yugoslavian colleagues, being the broker between conflicts between gangsters, where Ferry, just like the Yugos, takes the money off of both parties. It is no surprise then that Ferry always got along with the Yugoslavian gangs of both Paja and Duja, even working together with them at times.<br /> <br /> Ferry's life saying was: "Together against". He had made enough money to be set for life, and always wore expensive clothes and outragious jewelry. He wore a $90,000 Rolex watch with a wristband filled with rubies and diamants. Even the watch dial was blinking with diamants. It would make a magpie go blind. But you also saw Ferry wearing brightly colored track suits that made your eyes hurt. For the weekends Ferry drove a classic Auburn, green, with golden spoilers and golden rims. Every now and then I had to ride along for a drive around the Dam. Ferry wore an English lord cap and I sat beside him in that cabrio sports car. While waiting in front of a traffic light crowds gathered, people looked at us as if we were Batman and Robin in the batmobile. Ferry would always say "ain't this nice?". Later the 'Ferry-mobile' would turn to ashes in front of my house in the Michelangelostraat in Oud-Zuid, the upscale neighborhood of Amsterdam. 'My' neighbors looked on in disgust at the burning car and us. All this in their nice posh neighborhood.<br /> <br /> Ferry had one leg which dragged a bit. He was a bit overweight, and had the appearance of a pig, not really that awful, but with those beady eyes. But Ferry had sex at least once every day. And also drove through the Red Light District once every day. "Looking at crotches" he called that. And I'll be damned, in the beginning of our friendship I drove along with him a couple of times. He made a lengthy stop whenever he saw a 'babe' and watched her till he had had a thorough look at her crotch.<br /> <br /> All the hookers knew Ferry and waived at him when he passed by. He would also go inside to 'get some information', as he put it. We also attended a party held by a well known female drugdealer one time, when Ferry came downstairs all heated up saying 'Steve you'll never guess who's crotch I was just in.' 'Well, who?' He then said the name of a famous Dutch tv star. 'Steve, she'll do anything for some coke. Come on.' This tv diva has since had everybody with a bit of money or cocaine in her crotch, and is still going strong: a real die-hard.<br /> <br /> Ferry snorted a gram of cocaine a day, and you never noticed a thing about him. He was the exception regarding that. He didn't sleep more than two hours a day. How he did this was a riddle to me. During Ferry's days we drove back and forth through The Netherlands, worked hard and there were a lot of shootings in connection with our 'conflict brokering'.<br /> <br /> <img style="float:left;" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9236979474,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" />Ferry is the only person who, during the early days of Godfather Klaas Bruinsma (photo on the left), slapped the crime boss around. From that day on he had a special place in the (stone) heart of Bruinsma. But Ferry was proud of that. It meant something to be the only person who slapped the most feared man in The Netherlands. Bruinsma walked around with a red cheek for several days.<br /> <br /> The run-up to Ferry's murder had a lot to do with his agressive behaviour. Before his death Ferry had stolen a stash of 150 kilos of hashish from Bruinsma. The group had warned Ferry that this was the last time that he would rip their drugs. Bruinsma had let him know during a short chance meeting.<br /> <br /> After that Bruinsma sent his personal bodyguard Geurt Roos to Ferry's house to give him a second warning. Bruinsma had given Roos a letter, which he had to give to Ferry, hoping to avoid Roos fucking up the warning. The warning was a bit like this: 'You have to return the whole stash and pay a fine. If you rip us again, you die.'<br /> <br /> Ferry, not a fool himself, accepted the warning in front of his house. Behind the front door an associate of his was waiting with a gun in hand. Shortly thereafter Ferry was killed. Ferry arrived at his house at his usual time of 6am, where Martin Hoogland (according to Martin himself) awaited him wearing a baseball cap and fired seven or nine bullets into his body. Ferry had tried to reach for his gun which he kept in his car, but died trying. Martin sprayed the whole bloody scene with a can to make the job impossible for the police dogs. The mercedes must have looked like a colander, just like Ferry. </p>
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Profile of Dutch crime boss John Mieremet
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2010-11-05T14:30:00.000Z
2010-11-05T14:30:00.000Z
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<p><br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">By David Amoruso</span><br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted: January 24, 2007</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Johannes “Johnny” Mieremet was born in 1960. He grew up in the West of Amsterdam. Mieremet started his life of crime as a teenager, stealing motorcycles and doing small robberies. Small robberies turned into big robberies when Mieremet was a member of a gang called “The Thinkers,” a gang that committed several big robberies. As the nickname shows, the gang planned every score in detail. In the mid 1980s law enforcement started a large investigation into the gang of robbers. According to them the gang consisted of a leadership group of five to ten men (which included Mieremet) and a core group of twentyfive men who gave orders to a varying group of about a hundred men who would commit the robberies. These hundred men consisted of friends and associates. Authorities say the gang committed at least 41 armed robberies in The Netherlands and Belgium from 1982 to 1986. The robberies netted the gang an estimated 12,3 million guilders ($6 million.) By the mid to late 1980s the gang had fallen apart. Several of “The Thinkers” went into the drugtrade.</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mieremet and childhood pal Sam Klepper (also a leader of “The Thinkers”) joined the organization of crime boss Klaas Bruinsma. The two men led the gambling machines division and export of drugs for Bruinsma. They had a reputation as stone cold killers, which earned them the nickname “Spic and Span.” During 1990 Mieremet and Klepper were having problems with Yugoslavian boss Ljubinko Becirovic. Klepper and Mieremet were supposed to deliver a shipment of cocaine, the cocaine was never delivered. In the spring of 1990 Becirovic car was shot at when he drove past a cafe which was owned by the duo. Two days after the shooting Becirovic and his second in command <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/serbian-boss-sreten-jocic">Jotsa Jocic</a> had a meeting with Bruinsma and Etienne Urka. Becirovic gave Bruinsma a fine of 1 million guilders, if Bruinsma paid, all would be forgotten. Becirovic said Bruinsma was responsible for his men, Bruinsma denied this and said: “You guys fight it out with each other.” In October 1990 Becirovic was shot and died shortly there after in the hospital. The belief is the murder was committed by Mieremet and Klepper.</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The violent Yugo mob was angry. That didn’t deter our dynamic duo from stealing a large load of hashish worth between 10 and 20 million guilders from Magdi Barsoum, the load was meant for the Yugos. A month and a half after the murder of Klaas Bruinsma Yugoslavian gangsters went looking for Mieremet and Klepper and took one associate hostage. The heat was becoming too much and so Mieremet and Klepper decided to do the smart thing: go to prison.</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Both men filled their rental car with automatic weapons, handgrenades, ammo, tear gas and a tranquilizer gun. None of the weapons were ever used. They parked their car and called the police. They identified themselves as the owners and were arrested. After a short 11 months they were released from prison, and things had indeed cooled down. Jocic had fled The Netherlands.</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">By the late 90s Klepper had become a prospect with the Hells Angels, and the men gained a friend in Willem Holleeder. Their war with the Yugos flared up again. The Yugos demanded that Mieremet and Klepper pay them their money with interest. They refused, and bodies started dropping. Associate Jan Femer was murdered on September 23, 2000 and a few weeks later Klepper was shot to death in front of his penthouse in Amsterdam-Buitenveldert. Mieremet allegedly avenged his partner in crime by killing Magdi Barsoum and later also his brother Mounier. However no person has been arrested in connection to these killings.</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Through Willem Holleeder, Mieremet and Klepper got involved with property tycoon Willem Endstra. Endstra laundered their drug money and invested it in real estaste. Mieremet had invested millions of euros through Endstra. After all the killings Miermet decided to pay the Yugos their money. Spring 2001 Mieremet asked Holleeder to contact Jocic to start negotiations. Jocic wanted 10 million Deutsche Mark. Mieremet gave Holleeder 11,5 million guilders to hand over to Jocic. Mieremet later heard Holleeder had pocketed a couple of million. This caused a conflict between the two men. Mieremet was low on cash and demanded his invested 23 million euro from Endstra. The money had been invested in real estate and couldn’t just be paid out.</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In February 2002 Mieremet was shot in front of his lawyer’s office. Mieremet was heavily wounded but survived and when the Dutch tax service wants him to pay 20 million guilders, he decides to talk to crime reporter John van de Heuvel. In the interview he says Endstra is the bank of the underworld and Holleeder his guardian. Mieremet even says he wants to talk to police and testify, even if he has to serve 10 to 15 years in prison. The government decided not to use him as a witness when Mieremet demanded his wife be left alone by the tax service and wouldn’t be prosecuted.</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mieremet lived in exile in Belgium and Thailand, where he had invested in real estate. He felt safe there. He wasn’t. On November 1, 2005 Mieremet was in his office when a man stepped in and asked him if he was John. When Mieremet confirmed, the man told him: “I have been ordered to kill you because of your behaviour.” Mieremet was shot in the head twice, he died on his way to the hospital.</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sources</span>: De oorlog in de Amsterdamse onderwereld by Bart Middelburg and Paul Vugts. Op leven en dood by Gerlof Leistra.</span></p>
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Profile of Triad boss Chung Mon
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2010-11-03T17:47:59.000Z
2010-11-03T17:47:59.000Z
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<p><br /> By David Amoruso<br /> Posted on June 16, 2008<br /><br /> Chung "Unicorn" Mon was born on September 10, 1920 in Po On in the Guangdong province of China. When he was 18 he started working as a ship's cook on a freighter on its way to Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After arriving in The Netherlands Mon deserted and vanished into the small Chinese community. He stayed there during the occupation of The Netherlands by German forces during WW II. It was all about survival in those days and Mon was allegedly playing the part as an informer for the German gestapo. In order to obtain the Dutch nationality Mon married a Dutch woman named Ann Hess, who gave birth to their daughter.<br /> <br /> The 14K Triad had a keen interest in Europe and The Netherlands. They saw it as an untapped market where they could sell millions worth of drugs. Chung Mon became a member of the 14K and was assigned to run their European operations. At this point Mon was a successful businessman. Settled in Amsterdam, he owned restaurants, travel agencies, and casinos. Interestingly several arrested drug couriers listed the address of one of his restaurants as their final destination. Mon always claimed this was because he was a respected citizen running a restaurant many Chinese used as a meeting place.<br /> <br /> <img style="float:right;" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9236984883,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" />And Mon got away with it. He did a lot of work for charity and was decorated by the Dutch government. He had a good relationship with the Amsterdam police because he would give them good information on other drug dealers. By the late 1960s Mon was firmly in charge of Triad operations in Europe. So much so that he reputedly took a 5 percent cut of every Triad drug deal. His connection ran all the way to the Taiwanese government. In 1973 he even started exporting to the US, which brought him under the attention of the DEA.<br /> <br /> But other Triads and Asian crime groups started noticing the money to be made, and wanted a piece of the action. The Wo Shing Wo Triad set themselves up in Rotterdam, while other groups set up shop in Antwerp (Belgium) and Koblenz (Germany). A war broke out among the groups over who would control the heroin market. Chung Mon tipped off the police to get rid of his rivals and managed to maintain control. Of course his modus operandi wasn't one that was respected among criminals.<br /> <br /> On March 3, 1975 three Chinese men approached Mon as he stepped towards his Mercedes outside his office in Amsterdam. The three were armed and fired ten bullets into the Chinese Godfather. The men were never arrested. It is believed they were flown in from Hong Kong to murder Mon, and flew back immediatly after. Chung Mon is considered to be the man responsible for the start of the heroin scourge that plagued Europe ever since. </p>
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